Visualizing interfacial charge transfer in Ru-dye-sensitized TiO 2 nanoparticles using X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 628-632

  Zhang, Xiaoyi ^a   Smolentsev, Grigory ^b,c   Guo, Jianchang ^a,d,f   Attenkofer, Klaus ^a   Kurtz, Chuck ^a   Jennings, Guy ^a   Lockard, Jenny V ^a   Stickrath, Andrew B ^a   Chen, Lin X ^a,e  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND ORDERS; CHARGE SEPARATION PROCESS; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; DYE SENSITIZED; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; INTERFACIAL CHARGE TRANSFER; INTERFACIAL ELECTRON TRANSFER; INTERFACIAL SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR LEVELS; NANOPARTICLE SURFACE; RATIONAL DESIGN; STERIC HINDRANCES; STRUCTURAL REORGANIZATION; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; TIO; TRANSIENT STRUCTURE; X-RAY TRANSIENTS;

ABSORPTION; BOND LENGTH; CHARGE TRANSFER; ENERGY CONVERSION; ION EXCHANGE; NANOPARTICLES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 79952796819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz200122r     Document Type: Article

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